This school work from a RC comprehensive school comprises an exercise book (Year 8), a 'letter' from a French revolutionary and a project, all completed in 1996-7. The exercise book includes notes and illustrations on the French Revolution, the reign of Mary Tudor and an 'investigation' into the Gunpowder Plot. The project on the British monarchy in the twentieth century includes the death of Princess Diana which is examined in the context of other major events in the development of the monarchy, such as the Abdication in 1936.